.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 364 216
Rank change year-on-year +117 -148 -64
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 758 302 873
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 0.70% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 4.00% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 699 274 627
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,125 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +12.17% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,798 7,541 14,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 17.40% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,855 4,990 9,229
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,024 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 27 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +92 191 £55,000 -4.35% 45
North of England +45 182 £55,000 -8.33% 32
East of England +61 110 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Midlands +29 100 £55,000 -8.33% 19
London -97 95 £78,750 -1.56% 75
South West -34 77 £52,500 - 6
North West +1 74 £52,500 -8.70% 16
North East 0 73 £65,000 +30.00% 8
West Midlands +6 59 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East Midlands -1 41 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Yorkshire -15 35 £47,500 -20.83% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.72%) IIS
3 9 (1.19%) CMS
4 7 (0.92%) Confluence
5 6 (0.79%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.53%) Kentico
6 4 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.40%) DNN
7 3 (0.40%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.40%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.40%) Sitefinity
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 618 (81.53%) Azure
2 215 (28.36%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (19.92%) GitHub
4 134 (17.68%) AWS
5 133 (17.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 129 (17.02%) Azure AI
7 72 (9.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 38 (5.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 36 (4.75%) Power Platform
10 30 (3.96%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (3.83%) Power Automate
12 25 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (3.30%) PowerApps
13 21 (2.77%) Azure Key Vault
13 21 (2.77%) Serverless
14 19 (2.51%) SaaS
15 17 (2.24%) Google Play
16 16 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 13 (1.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.94%) Internet
2 6 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (55.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 359 (47.36%) MongoDB
3 150 (19.79%) Elasticsearch
4 140 (18.47%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.69%) Power BI
6 27 (3.56%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.77%) MySQL
8 17 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.72%) Redis
10 11 (1.45%) NonStop SQL
11 10 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.06%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.92%) GIS
15 3 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.40%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
17 1 (0.13%) HBase
Development Applications
1 73 (9.63%) Git
2 15 (1.98%) JIRA
2 15 (1.98%) NUnit
3 12 (1.58%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.32%) GitLab
5 7 (0.92%) MSI
5 7 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.79%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.66%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.66%) Postman
7 5 (0.66%) Snyk
8 4 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.40%) JUnit
9 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 108 (14.25%) Finance
2 79 (10.42%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.12%) Advertising
4 42 (5.54%) Games
5 38 (5.01%) Marketing
6 33 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (3.96%) Retail
9 24 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 20 (2.64%) Law
11 14 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.72%) Banking
13 11 (1.45%) Legal
13 11 (1.45%) Music Industry
14 8 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.66%) Automotive
15 5 (0.66%) Local Government
15 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.53%) Back Office
16 4 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 644 (84.96%) Developer
2 524 (69.13%) .NET Developer
3 98 (12.93%) Senior
4 77 (10.16%) Software Developer
5 70 (9.23%) Senior Developer
6 64 (8.44%) C# Developer
7 51 (6.73%) Lead
8 48 (6.33%) C# .NET Developer
9 41 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (4.75%) Software Engineer
11 34 (4.49%) Lead Developer
12 30 (3.96%) Senior C# Developer
13 28 (3.69%) .NET Software Developer
13 28 (3.69%) Senior .NET Developer
14 21 (2.77%) Senior Software Developer
15 20 (2.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (2.64%) Lead .NET Developer
16 18 (2.37%) C# Software Developer
16 18 (2.37%) Senior C# .NET Developer
17 17 (2.24%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 758 (100.00%) .NET
2 501 (66.09%) ASP.NET
3 434 (57.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 232 (30.61%) CSS
5 230 (30.34%) HTML
6 218 (28.76%) Entity Framework
7 208 (27.44%) Blazor
8 205 (27.04%) React
9 192 (25.33%) AngularJS
10 181 (23.88%) RESTful
11 167 (22.03%) ASP.NET Web API
12 164 (21.64%) Vue
13 150 (19.79%) Node.js
14 142 (18.73%) .NET Framework
15 126 (16.62%) ML.NET
16 107 (14.12%) LINQ
17 75 (9.89%) REST
18 46 (6.07%) JSON
19 34 (4.49%) WPF
20 27 (3.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.35%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (8.18%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.64%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.51%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.24%) iPhone
7 15 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.45%) Sports Betting
9 10 (1.32%) BBC
9 10 (1.32%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.32%) Social Media
9 10 (1.32%) Social Network
10 9 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.06%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.30%) Windows
2 17 (2.24%) Android
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (66.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 396 (52.24%) Agile
3 268 (35.36%) CI/CD
4 255 (33.64%) DevOps
5 208 (27.44%) Microservices
6 164 (21.64%) AI
7 139 (18.34%) Machine Learning
8 138 (18.21%) Multithreading
9 103 (13.59%) Scrum
10 92 (12.14%) Software Engineering
11 81 (10.69%) OO
12 80 (10.55%) TDD
13 66 (8.71%) BDD
14 62 (8.18%) Kanban
15 57 (7.52%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 57 (7.52%) Problem-Solving
16 55 (7.26%) Mentoring
17 50 (6.60%) User Experience
18 46 (6.07%) SDLC
19 45 (5.94%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 705 (93.01%) C#
2 496 (65.44%) SQL
3 259 (34.17%) JavaScript
4 201 (26.52%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.30%) Python
6 20 (2.64%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.58%) Java
9 10 (1.32%) VBA
10 9 (1.19%) Bicep
11 4 (0.53%) Bash
11 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.53%) Ruby
11 4 (0.53%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.40%) Go
12 3 (0.40%) VBScript
13 2 (0.26%) C
13 2 (0.26%) Dart
14 1 (0.13%) Delphi
14 1 (0.13%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 62 (8.18%) Degree
2 28 (3.69%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.69%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.40%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.40%) OCP
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.09%) QA
2 25 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.92%) NCSC
3 7 (0.92%) WCAG
4 4 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.40%) GDPR
5 3 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Basel III
System Software
1 187 (24.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 165 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.40%) Ansible
2 3 (0.40%) Grafana
2 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 499 (65.83%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.60%) Facebook
3 44 (5.80%) Google
4 21 (2.77%) YouTube
5 13 (1.72%) Adobe
6 10 (1.32%) Apple
6 10 (1.32%) Sony
6 10 (1.32%) Yahoo!
7 7 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.79%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.53%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.53%) Splunk
9 4 (0.53%) Workday
10 3 (0.40%) Alterian
10 3 (0.40%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.26%) Databricks
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle
11 2 (0.26%) Sage
11 2 (0.26%) Veracode